Scientific fields and scientific panels
When you register journals and series, you also must choose a scientific field for the journal or the series. At this page you can find links to the different scientific fields.
The classification of the scientific fields builds on the classification in Web of Science. A journal or a series can only be registered with one scientific field. This is because each scientific field has a scientific panel and/or a publishing committee with responsibility for the publication channels within its field.
See an overview over the different scientific fields at the NPI webpage.
The mission of the scientific panels
The scientific panels' main task is to nominate publication channels to level 2. But we do often ask the scientific panels to evaluate publication channels at level 1, when we at the decision meetings for level 1 are unsure whether a publication channel should be approved as academic publication channel or not.
The scientific panels are also involved in the decisions about whether we should set a publication channel under discussion (X) or not. When we at the decision meetings for level 1, suggests setting a publication channel under discussion (X), we ask the scientific panel if they agree. When we at the decision meetings for level 1, suggests that a publication channel no longer should be under discussion (X), we also ask the scientific panels if they agree in the decision.
Contact information
You can find the contact information to each scientific panel/publishing committee at the bottom of the following pages:
Humanities
Asia, Middle East and North African Studies
Social Science
Education and Educational Research
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Library and Information Science
Health Sciences
Anaesthesia, Emergency and Intensive Care
Cardiovascular and Respratory Systems
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Public, Environmental and Occupational Health
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging
Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy, Ergotherapy and Orthopedic Engineering
Natural Sciences and Engineering
Chemistry and Materials Technology